Pan's Labyrinth

El laberinto del fauno (2006)

Timing: 1:58 (118 min)

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Photo 224

Actors and characters

Release date

2006-10-11

Country

Mexico, Spain, United States

Production

Esperanto Filmoj, Telecinco Cinema, Tequila Gang, Estudios Picasso

Genre

Fantasy, Drama, War

Budget

$19 000 000

Revenue

$83 258 226

Website

https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/pans-labyrinth

Director

Guillermo del Toro

Actors

Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, Álex Angulo, Roger Casamajor, Manolo Solo, César Vea, Iván Massagué
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Scenario

Guillermo del Toro

Producer

Alfonso Cuarón, Frida Torresblanco, Guillermo del Toro, Álvaro Augustin, Bertha Navarro, Elena Manrique, Belén Atienza, O.D. Welch

Operator

Guillermo Navarro

Composer

Javier Navarrete

Artist

Carlos Zaragoza, Alicia Castro Chicol

Audition

Sara Bilbatúa, Cristina Perales

Editing

Bernat Vilaplana
All team (122)

• After a week of screenings in Mexico, cinemas were forced to add warnings about the film's violence to its posters, so that parents would not allow their young children to attend showings.
• At the Cannes Film Festival, the film was awarded 22 minutes of applause.
• In 2007, the film became one of the few fantasy films in the entire history of the Academy Awards to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
• The film was banned in Malaysia for failing censorship due to scenes containing violence.
• The ruined city shown at the beginning of the film is actually called Belchite. It was also used as a location for Terry Gilliam's 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen' (1988). Belchite was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War and has not been rebuilt since.
• Guillermo del Toro is known for keeping notebooks where he jots down his ideas in the form of drawings and notes for their subsequent implementation in films. Once, he left a notebook with ideas for "Pan's Labyrinth," which he had been developing for years, on the back seat of a taxi and thought the project was lost. But when the driver found the notebook, he immediately realized how important it was to the director and tracked down Guillermo to return the notes. Del Toro considered this a divine blessing.
• Doug Jones was the only American involved on the set and the only one who didn't speak Spanish at all.
• Doug Jones had to memorize not only his own lines in Spanish (a language he doesn't speak at all), but also Ophelia's lines, so he would know when to say his next words.
• The Faun's legs were not created on a computer. Guillermo del Toro's discovery was that the real legs of the actor, removed digitally, were replaced with puppet legs.
• Ivana Baquero, who played the girl, was too old to play her character, originally created as an 8-year-old girl. But Del Toro was so inspired by her performance that he decided to adapt the script for an 11-year-old actress.
• The ruined city shown at the beginning of the film is actually called Belchite. It was also used as a location for Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1988). Belchite was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War and has never been rebuilt since.
• Guillermo del Toro is known to keep notebooks where he sketches and jots down ideas for future films. Once, he left a notebook containing ideas for "Pan's Labyrinth," which he had been developing for years, in the back of a taxi and thought the project was lost. However, when the driver found the notebook, he immediately realized how important it was to the director and tracked down Guillermo to return the notes. Del Toro considered this a divine blessing.